U.S. Leads World In Giving

As in Canada, in every country of Western Europe, the percentage of personal income donated to charity is less than half the level in the United States. Why is that? Why are the peoples of Canada and Western Europe so much less generous than the people of the United States? One prime factor is the extraordinarily high percentage of committed Christians in the U.S. In a recent survey of attitudes in the countries of Europe and North America, the Pew Research Centre found the proportion of the population for whom religion is "very important" amounts to 59 per cent in the United States as compared to just 30 per cent in Canada, 33 per cent in Britain, 27 per cent in Italy and a mere 11 per cent in France. http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Columnists/Leishman_Rory/2007/08/04/pf-4393041.html

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